Thanks to translations from Lau Chee Loong, Diarised is now available in Malay. Our little web application is beginning to grow up a bit.

Want to know more about Malay? Check the Wikipedia entry.

"The Malay language (Bahasa Melayu; Jawi script: بهاس ملايو‎), is an Austronesian language spoken by the Malay people who reside in the Malay Peninsula, southern Thailand, the Philippines, Singapore, central eastern Sumatra, the Riau islands, parts of the coast of Borneo, Cocos and Christmas Islands in Australia, and even in the Netherlands. It is an official language of Malaysia, Indonesia, Brunei, and Singapore. It is very similar to Indonesian, known locally as Bahasa Indonesia, the official language of Indonesia."

Oh, and did you know the word ketchup is derived from the Malay word _catsup_? Think of that next time you’re piling it onto a bacon sandwich.

As ever, if you want Diarised in your own language then this is the deal. If you can provide the translation then we will write the code and localise Diarised for you. We make it as easy as we can for you so why not get in touch.

Diarised just keeps on growing. Thanks to Marshall Berton, a regular Diarised user, we now provide Diarised in French. There’s more on the way but you can now use Diarised in English, French, Spanish, Dutch and Brazilian Portugese.

Want Diarised in your own language? Then why not step up and help us out. Just get in touch. More information about Diarised here.

Many thanks to Cecilia Fleming

We are delighted to announce that Diarised is now available in Dutch, our third language. The translation was provided by Roel Van Gils of anysurfer.be.

We’re also on the lookout for more translators. Want Diarised in your own language? Then why not step up and help us out. Just get in touch. The application itself is fully internationalised now so adding languages is, in the main, a question of just 'plugging them in'.

You may have noticed that Diarised is now available in Spanish as well as English. More languages are on the way and this is now pretty easy thanks to the 'internationalisation' of your little meeting application.

Steve, our lead developer, has just had his first article published on Think Vitamin where he talks about the work involved.

Give your web app international appeal is the first in a two-part series offering fairly technical guidance on how to internationalise web apps generally. It's a good read if you're into that kind of thing. Watch out for part two coming soon.

Oh, and if you would like to see Diarised in your language then let us know. If you (or someone you know) can do the translation then we'll add the code and make it happen. It's a simple process - we just send you a text file which you can translate and send us back.

UPDATE: Part two is now online.

On Wednesday 11th April we’re giving a short presentation, The Making of Diarised, at Oxford Geek Night. Our proposal suggests:

A 100 mile an hour run through the development of Diarised.com, the lessons we learned, the highs and lows, the use of microformats, internationalisation, and the launch day experience of making the Daring Fireball linked list...

So not much to pack in then? We really are going to try and cover the lot in just five minutes. It’ll be fast-paced, breathless, and, hopefully, a whole lot of fun. It’s already looking like it’s going to be packed but if you’re quick you may yet be able to reserve a place. Entry is free and a number of us will be on hand to answer questions and generally geek out afterwards.

The keynote speakers for the night are Jon Hicks, talking about web typography and what's hot in the typography world for 2007 and James Webster from Amazon UK presenting Amazon's suite of powerful web services. With several other mini-presentations, that’s a mightily impressive line-up for such an informal event and it’s quite an honour to be given one of the slots to talk about Diarised for the first time in public.

We’re looking forward to it.

The response to Diarised has been fantastic and the feedback hugely positive. Looking at the stats we realised that our users are spread across the world so we decided to internationalise our little meeting application. The first language out of the door is Spanish but there's more to follow.

The Spanish translation (and some impressive guidance) was provided by David of www.tomisimo.org. He's written a small piece about the experience.

We’re also on the lookout for more translators. Want Diarised in your own language? Then why not step up and help us out. Just get in touch. The application itself is fully internationalised now so adding languages is, in the main, a question of just 'plugging them in'.

In the meantime, we've added a few new features in recent weeks. It is now possible to have Diarised automatically confirm your meeting for you if everyone can make a certain date. Just tick the box when you set up a meeting.

We’ve also added the opportunity to attach a note if you have to cancel a meeting for any reason.

Finally, we’ve added the facility for meeting creators to add additional dates as required - at any stage in the process.

Enjoy.

Introducing Diarised, a new web application from Made Media Ltd

Diarised is a simple to use web application that will help you arrange meetings. It’s completely free to use and doesn’t require any registration.

• Diarised is free – You can schedule as many meetings as you like, and suggest unlimited dates for your meetings.
• Diarised is easy to use – The clutter-free interfaces make organising meetings with Diarised straightforward.
• Diarised is productive – Diarised will figure out who can attend and on which dates and notify you with a list of the best times and dates, leaving you more time to get stuff done!
• Diarised is fast – There's no signup required, you can start using Diarised immediately.

We've striven to make Diarised as easy to use as possible and worked hard at finding the correct balance between providing information (good) and nagging (bad).

Why Diarised?

It’s an application that we wanted ourselves. An application we intend to use. There doesn’t appear to be anything else that provides a service like this - certainly not without registering or paying - so we built it ourselves. We need to arrange meetings constantly and the endless batting around of possible dates between email CC lists just drives us crazy. We think Diarised will reduce the headaches we associate with this process and that is the reason for its development. We hope you like it.

How does it work?

Well, as the home page explains, it’s a five step process.

1. Enter the details of your proposed meeting into Diarised, including the meeting invitees and the possible times and dates for the meeting.
2. Diarised sends out emails to all invitees.
3. The invitees choose the times that suit them best.
4. Once the invitees have chosen their preferred meeting dates, Diarised will tell you the best dates for your meeting.
5. All meeting invitees will be sent an email confirming the chosen date and time

Future Developments?

No promises yet but we have ambitions of adding user accounts with added features. In particular this would let users that register (which will always remain optional) the chance to maintain a meeting history, maybe an address book and, most importantly in our view, a filestore. ‘Filestore?’ I hear you ask. Well yes. In particular a way of distributing materials relevant to any particular meeting. So it will be easy to upload agendas, previous minutes, documents for review and distribute these to those attending the meeting via web link rather than heavyweight email attachment. There’s some complexity in making this work really well but we’ve thought it through, have a plan and now just need some time to implement it.

We have other ideas for expanding Diarised but they’ll have to wait for another day. Of course, we would welcome suggestions and feedback. Enjoy.